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H. E. HULBBRT.

BUDDING KNIFE.

Patented Aug. 18, 1885 HARRY E. HULBERT, OF SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA.

BUDDlNG-KNIFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,700, dated August 18, 1885.

(No model.)

T 0 (1% whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, HARRY E. HULBERT, of Santa Rosa, county of Sonoma, and State of California, have invented an Improvement in a BuddingKnife; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to budding knives, tools, or implements; and it consists in a blade suitably mounted in a handle, and provided on its cutting-edge, back of its point, with a small piece or lug having approximately the shape of a section of a cone taken from vertex to base, and laid with its fiat side down and point forward, or resembling some what the shape'of an ordinary flat-iron.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective budding-knife adapted to be handled easily, accurately, and rapidly.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of my budding-knife. Fig. 2 shows the same turned edge up. Fig. 3 shows it in the act of starting the cut. Fig. 4 shows the lug raising the bark at the cross cut.

A is an ordinary handle, having the blade 13, of any suitable shape and provided with the usual cutting-edge. Upon this edge, a short distance back from the point, is forged or otherwise secured a piece orlug, O, having the shape, as hereinbefore stated, of a fiat-1ron,or, more correctly speaking, a longitudinal section or half of a conoid, with its flat side down and its point forward. The point of this piece is separated slightly, as shown, from the cutting-edge of the blade, by reason of the curvature of the upper surface of the piece.

The use of the implement is as follows: The bud is cut from its place in the usual manner by any convenient portion of the cutting-edge of the blade. Then the cross-cut is made through the bark of the stock by means of the blade, which is then turned in line With the stock and placed thereon in such pomake the longitudinal cut, and the point of piece 0, coming to the cross-cut, enters under the bark and, as the movement continues, passes completely under it, the curved expanded sides of the piece raising the bark on each side as the blade cuts in advance of it. The bud is then inserted and treated in the usual manner.

The shape of the piece C enables it to effect an easy entrance under the bark, and prevents it from injuring or bruising it. Its position on the blade renders it convenient and effective in supplen'lenting at the proper time the other operations effected by the blade.

With this implement each and every stepnamely, cutting out the bud, making the crosscut and the longitudinal cut, and raising the barkis accomplished without having to turn the knife end for end, as is the case with the common budding-tools. in which the blade is on one end and the bark-raising ivory or bone piece is on the other.

The whole implement can be easily and cheaply manufactured, and is very eii'ective in operation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a budding knife, tool, or implement, a

blade having a cutting-edge, and provided on said edge, back of its point, with a piece or lug adapted to enter under and raise the bark as the blade cuts it in advance, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

HARRY E. HULBERT.

Witnesses:

W. Dow. Srnncnn, H. PERRY HULBERT. 

